KristenWorld News Activists Decry Femicides After Another Woman Is Killed In Juárez, Mexico NPR - Mónica Ortiz UribeA week after the killing of a young female artist and activist, protesters in the Mexican border city of Juárez took to the streets with a message to authorities: Don't let this crime go unpunished like
KristenSports Wang Qiang, Fresh From Upsetting Serena, Now Believes She Belongs The New York Times - Ben RothenbergMELBOURNE, Australia — Wang Qiang says she lost so quickly to Serena Williams in the United States Open quarterfinals last year that it hardly left a mark: 6-1, 6-0, 44 minutes. “A really tough match,
KristenGender The reskilling revolution can transform the future of work for women weforum.org - Miki Tsusaka • Women will be disproportionately affected by digital transformation. • They are also currently under-represented in STEM-related professions. • Targeted …
KristenWomen's News Let 2020 Be The Year We Get Rid Of Girlboss Culture For Good Refinery29 - Vicky SprattAt the start of this year an advert from People Per Hour – an online platform that connects businesses and freelancers – was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for gender stereotyping.
KristenEmployment The global parental leave paradox Axios - Erica Pandey Parental leave is steadily becoming ubiquitous around the world, but workplace cultures in many countries continue to prevent employees — especially …
KristenRights & Freedoms What you need to know about today's Women's March CNN - By Alaa Elassar, CNN(CNN) — The fourth annual Women's March is Saturday, and streets across the country and around the world will be flooded with women and allies to advocate for women's rights and equality. Thousands of
KristenWorld News Propaganda and sexism prove powerful contraceptives for Chinese women The Guardian - Emma Graham-HarrisonChina’s government has been trying to manage a public U-turn on one of its biggest, longest running and most powerful policy and propaganda campaigns for several years now, urging a generation of only-children
KristenWashington (D.C.) National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump The Washington Post - Joe HeimThe Archives acknowledged in a statement this week that it made multiple alterations to the photo of the 2017 Women’s March showcased at the museum, blurring signs held by marchers that were critical Trump.
KristenLong-form Journalism Dispatches from the Front Lines of Silicon Valley Sexism Elle - Anna WienerAt the age of 25, I moved from Brooklyn to San Francisco to work for a data analytics start-up. The company had 20 employees, four of whom were women—a decent ratio, in 2013. My job was in customer support,
KristenGeek The Cost Of Being A Woman Who Covers Video Games Kotaku - Maddy Myers Now that it’s 2020, I keep thinking about how it felt to be a woman writing about gender in video games back in 2010. Ten years ago, the gender …
KristenMedicine Men are more likely than women to call their science ‘excellent’ The Washington Post - Carolyn Y. JohnsonA new study adds to a growing body of research that suggests subtle differences in how women describe their discoveries may affect their career trajectories. Male authors were more likely to sprinkle like
KristenWomen's News The grooming gap: What “looking the part” costs women Salon - Mindy IsserMadison, who works a customer service job at an airport spa, has an employee handbook that says “makeup should be well maintained” and “hands and nails must be well manicured.” She says the few men she
KatherineWomen's News The Challenges That Working Mothers Still Face ampproject.org - Sue Shellenbarger Nearly 30 years ago, it may have looked to others like I had it all—a thriving career I loved and two small children. Yet I still found myself lying …
KristenEntrepreneurship Sexist Military Language Infiltrates Business Culture, Making it Tougher for Women to Rise in the Ranks Inc Magazine - Soren KaplanA few years ago, I had the opportunity to work with a Fortune 500 technology company based in Silicon Valley. Instead of talking about geographic regions like the US, Europe or Asia as "markets," the referred
KristenSports Industry A Decade Of Fighting For Equal Pay In Sports Forbes - Cecelia TownesThe ten highest-paid athletes over the last decade are all men. So are the top 20 and the top 30. As a matter of fact, a woman—Serena Williams—does not appear on the list of the highest-paid athletes the
KristenTechnology 'What an insult': CES names Ivanka Trump as keynote speaker The Guardian - Edward HelmoreCES, the leading consumer-electronics trade show, is facing criticism after picking Ivanka Trump to serve as its keynote speaker next month in Las Vegas, after years of being accused of overlooking the
Kristen The Miseducation of the American Boy The Atlantic - Peggy OrensteinWhy boys crack up at rape jokes, think having a girlfriend is “gay,” and still can’t cry—and why we need to give them new and better models of masculinity I knew nothing about Cole before meeting him;
KristenSocial Work The Cost Of Underestimating The Rise Of Women: No Babies Forbes - Avivah Wittenberg-CoxForty-six countries around the world have shrinking populations, and this number is set to rise to 67 by 2040. Some 60 years after the invention of the contraceptive pill, women are voting – powerfully
KristenIcon version of the Flipboard logoGender Gendered Language in Teaching Evaluations benschmidt.org This site is back online (Sep 25 2019) with a new hosting setup. Post about outage This interactive chart lets you explore the words used to describe …
KristenWomen's News I’m an award-winning Latina author. At a fancy literary gala, I was mistaken for a waiter. thelily.com - Reyna Grande On the eve of the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., earlier this year, I attended the author gala held at the Library of Congress. Finding …
Kristen Harvey Weinstein was a sacrificial lamb for misogyny. And now he's back The Guardian - Moira DoneganWeinstein’s presence at a New York bar is the latest in a string of increasingly brazen returns to public life by men who were credibly accused of sexual assault In the two years since #MeToo reshaped
KristenPeacekeeping Peace Efforts That Leave Out Women Will Fail, Says Professor fordham.edu In 2016, more countries experienced violent conflict than any time in the previous 30 years. From Yemen, Syria, and Venezuela to Myanmar, the …
Kristen How Salesforce Closed the Pay Gap Between Men and Women WIRED - Monica Langley Marc Benioff In an excerpt from his new book, CEO Marc Benioff says he initially didn’t believe any gender-based pay disparities were pervasive in the first place. …
Kristen Just say it: Yes, I'm menstruating CNN - Opinion by Elizabeth Yuko(CNN) — In a recent unaired, cut-for-time commercial parody on "Saturday Night Live," Phoebe Waller-Bridge asks Aidy Bryant for a tampon, but doesn't want to do the hand-off in their college classroom.
Kristen Boston University Pays $144,000 after Firing a Woman Who Didn't Return from Maternity Leave. Here's Why Inc Magazine - Suzanne LucasFMLA protects you for 12 weeks, but ADA can protect your job much longer. Maria Alves's employer fired her when she didn't return from her maternity leave. Well, to be fair, they gave her one extension
KristenBig Ideas: All-Female Spacewalk Makes History and Brain-Computer InterfaceNASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch made history today when they conducted the first all-female spacewalk to replace a failed power control unit. Plus, six teams of DARPA researchers are working on developing a technology that could potentially control drones with the brain waves of soldiers, and fatty tissue is found in the lungs of obese and overweight people for the first time.
Kristen I got $10,000 more when I negotiated my salary—here's the exact script I used CNBC - Tori Dunlap, Contributor Not too long ago, I was on the job hunt. After months and months of submitting resumes, I received a call from the CEO of one of the companies I had …
KristenLeadership New LeanIn Study: The Broken Rung Keeping Women From Management Forbes - Kim ElsesserAccording to new research by McKinsey and LeanIn.Org, the biggest obstacle to women’s progress at work is not the glass ceiling keeping women from reaching the top levels of leadership. Instead, the researchers
KristenAesthetics If You Hate @Skatemosss, What You Really Hate is the Male Gaze skateism.com - Osh Hello again, skate bros. I imagine you’ve probably been enjoying my time away from this column with some Lowcard-koozie-sheathed Miller High Lifes by …
